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Summer is a great time to seek out cooking activities to do with your kids. Summer cooking can be a lot of fun and should be used as a way of getting your child interested in cooking. Make sure that you focus on the process, and keep your feedback positive. Children learn best when they feel confident, and they will pick up a lot of that esteem from the way that you talk to them.

Most often children are home on school break so I like to get them more involved in the kitchen. Whether it is cooking dinner or doing special projects. Here are some favorite summer ideas to incorporate.

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Do you need a fun way to introduce the alphabet and cooking to kids? A theme idea like cooking with the alphabet can teach kids not only their letters but help them learn some fun cooking techniques too.

This could be a fun activity to incorporate into your school year. How about Alphabet Cooking Friday? Where you concentrate on a letter of the week and end the week with some cooking activities inspired by that letter. We can come up with a lot of fun letter activities but here we will concentrate on A-Z cooking recipes.

Anytime you can create something fun with your food kids will eat it up. Try giving the kids ideas or a picture and let them make their own creations. Here are some of our favorite animal theme food ideas.
Animal Theme Food Ideas
Turn a simple boiled egg into chicks. See a few variations on our farm theme page.
You can buy candy eyeballs and use them all over your food just like in these meatballs. Just add a carrot piece for a beak.
Create some edibleSpiders

Dinosaur Ideas- Create dinosaurs out of vegetables makes a fun twist in a vegetable tray.

Rainbow Pancakes
I love making rainbow pancakes! They’re super colorful (obviously) and kids
just love them!
Usually, about once a week, I make pancakes. It seems like Thursday is pancake day in our
house. I will go down to my mom’s and we’ll
whip up some buttery golden pancakes.
YUM!! Everyone smells like syrup
afterwards and sticky hands have to get washed but those pancakes make it so
worth it!
Now, we never made rainbow pancakes when I was growing up
but once when I was prowling through the internet, I came across a post that
had these super colorful pancakes. I
thought that it was such a cute idea and one that kids would just love – and I
was right. :) I made these for my siblings and they just
couldn’t get enough of them.
So, now on our pancake day, we occasionally will have
rainbow pancakes. They are a little bit
more work to create but they bring lots of smiles to the kitchen.
5 Easy Steps to Making Rainbow Pancakes
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Kids Trail Mix Recipes
Keep these few steps in mind when making trail mix, and you can create different versions over and over.
Better yet the kids can create their own variety and pack them for snacks and lunches!

Simply pick one or two items from each category below and mix it together. Store in air tight containers or baggies and you have a simple snack to take on the go.
Something Salty
The salty sweet combination is usually what has people eating trail mix. PeanutsAlmondsRoasted nut varietySesame sticksPistachiosSunflower seedsPumpkin seedsPretzelsChex mix- gluten and nut free option *Popcorn - gluten and nut free option *Cheerios - gluten and nut free option *
Something Sweet
This doesn't have to be M&M's or candy you can think dried fruit or chocolate chips of some variety. Here are some ideas for sweet additions: Dried cranberriesRaisinsDried peaches, apples or apricots cut in bite size pieces Shredded coconutBanana chipsCerealFreeze dried berries
Favorite Addi…